The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

-TfedU ueeuS make great men IL
there is any virtue in titles to valuable
corner lots.-N 0. Ptcayuiae.
1t is the little things that are the
most wonderful and difficult; it is pos
sible for human enterprise to make
mountain, but impossible for it to make
an oyster-N. y Herald
After saying that "life without in
dustry is guilt" Ruskin adds that 'for
the words good and wicked used by
men you may almost substitute the
words makers or destroyers. -
The West Indian birch is said to
be the weakest, and the nutmeg hickory
of Arkansas the strongest wood. The
lightest and most brittle is the blue
wood of Texas, and the tamarack the
most elastic. Golden Rule.
Florida landlord { to chef)-" Has
that hind quarter of alligator come yet?'
Chef" No" Landlord" Well, blank
that butcher, he was to have it here
sure. You will have to scratch stewed
terrapin off the bill of fare"
"A credulous merchantin Melbourne,
Australia, recently allowed himself to
be swindled out of n large sum of
money by pious fraud who called him
self prophet. The merchant entered
the transaction in his books as prophet
and Loss"
"A woman in Rochester sends word
TO the postmaster at Chicago that she
has never yet seen a man whom she
liked well enough to marry, and asks
the postmaster to look around for her
and send her address to suitable
person.
The large packing establishments
obtain as high as seventy-two per cent
of product from the gross weight of
hogs, from good conditioned animals
occasionally more, and the yield runs
down to sixty-eight per cent for poor
stock.-Fdrm. Field and Stocbnaan.
-Vitrified stove-piping is now uni
versally used for drainage purposes
both north and south. In the South in
small villages and towns they take
the place of the pump-log, whose re-
mains are yet exhumed occasionally
from the debris of the underground past
in the city of Richmond Chicago
Times.
"A citizen of Beaver Falls has dog
that used to answer to the name of
"Snipe." Once the family went visit
ing and left Snipe locked up in the
house. 1t was forty-three days before
they returned, but they found the dog
alive. He recovered from his long fast,
and since then has been called Tan
ner. ~. Y Sun.
"A druggist in Athens, Ga, who did
a tremendous business, particularly in
soda water, with the students of the
university there, has been boycotted by
the boys. The boycott was ordered be-
cause the druggist assisted the bailiff of
Clarke Superior Court to serve a sub
pGna on "A certain student to attend court
and answer to charge of poker-play-
ing.
In Bavaria the Mayor of little
village was ordered by the higher
authorities to make out a list of the
dogs kept by the inhabitants. He did
80, and the list read as follows:
The school-teacher-a dog.
The pastor-a dog.
The doctor-a dog.
Myself-a dog.
All of us together-four dogs.
The appetite of a cod is apparently
about as voracious as that of an os-
trich A collection of articles which
had been taken from the stomachs of
Goldfish by the bank fishermen off New
foundland contained a splitting knife, a
small brass-handled knife. piece of
granite weighing three or four pounds,
playing cards and brass lamp. Fishy.
A native Persian lectured before
Sunday-school in New York lately, and
published report states that the young
ladies of the audience laughed when Mr..
Neesan told how the Persian youth was
allowed to take one kiss from his future
wife on the eve before their marriage,
provided he could find her in dark
room full of other ladies. They were
silent and sympathetic when he told
how, although he was engaged three
years, he never got one kiss in all that
time.
"A curious community is established
on an island in the South Atlantic. A
man who was shipwrecked on the island
about fifty years ago is the head of the
government, which is republican in
form, though the island belongs to the
British Crown. There are nineteen
families in the State, consisting of
forty-four women and girls. twenty
three men and boys, and children under
fourteen years of age, thirty of both
sexes Chicago Adrance.
Excited Tenant-"See here, Mr.
Rackrcnt, there's spring broken
through my cellar walls and the cellar
is Just flooded" Old Rackrent, calmly
That so? Good strong spring."
Excited Tenant.-'I should say strong
we'll all be drowned if something isn't
done for that cellar" "Well | don't
see but that I'll have to raise your rent
about four dollars month; there's